Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...QUIT Harvard seven years ago after completing my freshman year to become a fashion model I did so to escape the entire mental process. The monumental intellectual confidence which I'd towed into the Yard at the beginning of Freshman Week had flaked chipped and then crumbled to dust during the following months Rejection from a freshman seminar encounters with disdainful professors mindboggling conversations with Presidential scholars along with the first C-plus of my life had the combined effect of linking thinking and misery together in my mind...
...struggling model in Paris I experienced the futility of trying to apply New England rules of good behavior to the wrong environment. All of the by then ingrained qualities which had made me a teacher's pet in prep school discipline organization punctuality--were spurious currency in a community fueled by spontaneity in which models wandered into shootings late and relied on after-hours socializing to advance professionally Rejection as a model cut more deeply than rejection as a student because it was myself my face my figure my smile being rebuffed sometimes tactfully, often abruptly on a daily basis...
...agonized at home in Rhode Island over the grand alternatives of returning to a mediocre school experience or courting failure as a model in one more city, my grandparents phoned. For the 20th time since I'd left Harvard, they deluged me with dire predictions of what kind of future lay in store for a college dropout--no job, no money, no place in society, no friends, and, of course, no respect from Korean relatives. I was galvanized School was definitely out of the question I moved to New York immediately...
This woman isn't just a model, she's an industry. On television and in print, the cheery vision of Christie Brinkley, 28, sells everything from cosmetics to health spas. In the past six months alone, she has appeared on 20 magazine covers. The Christie Brinkley calendar is about the only serious competition for Garfield the Cat, and Christie Brinkley's Outdoor Beauty and Fitness Book is poised to shimmy up the bestseller list. So lest a bit of open wall in a teenager's bedroom not be filled with her image, here comes...
...when Guest Star John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard) belts out "It's not where you start. It's where you finish." Finally, Miss New Zealand, Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, is proclaimed Miss Universe. The alien reads the data sheet Downes filled out before the competition. "Occupation: model. Hobbies: dance, regular workouts at gym, swimming, tennis, jogging. Life ambition: to strive for a good quality of life, and to be appreciative of what I accomplish in my life." He attends a press conference in the bedroom of a hotel suite the next morning. In her pink nightie...